truce of God

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The truce of God set apart the days between Thursday and Monday of each week as a time of peace, when private quarrels should be suspended.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard

And if these guarantees can not be denied them, how could they be other than barriers to competition, just as the truce of God, invented by the bishops, was a barrier to feudal wars?

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

But when such a truce to pain falls in the happiest setting, and the most glorious scenery, then rejoice and be glad, it is a real truce of God.

From Great Possessions by Ward, Wilfrid, Mrs.

Haloed with love and with wonder, in sheltered ways they trod, Seers of sublime divination, keeping the truce of God.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

It was a kind of truce of God to her.

From The High Heart by King, Basil